Objective-C synthesize property name overriding

Question

I am trying to understand the purpose of the synthesize directive with property name overriding. Say that I have an interface defined as follow:

Answer 1

Yes. self._dummyLabel is undefined, however _dummyLabel is not.

Dot syntax expands out to simple method invocations, so it's not specific to properties. If you have a method called -(id)someObject, for example in the case of object.someObject, it will be as if you wrote [object someObject];.

self.dummyLabel  //works
self._dummyLabel //does not work
dummyLabel       //does not work
_dummyLabel      //works
[self dummyLabel];  //works
[self _dummyLabel]; //does not work